The
State of the Arts
monthly newsletter of Fairbanks Arts Association
January 2007
I N THIS ISSUE p2
P r o g r a m in f o c us - A r t E x p o
p4
A f f i l i ate s p o t l i g ht
p5
V o l untee r th a n k s
p6-7
g a l l e r y e x hi b it
p8
r e a d in g se r ies
g a l l e r y a r tist c a l en d a r o f e v ents c o m m ittee s c he d u l e
“Promoting contemporary and traditional arts in Alaska’s Interior.”
p8 p9 pA r
FAA’s 2006 Legislative Forum: Enhancing the Arts Community with the Exchange of Ideas
affiliates, other arts organizations, artists, and
education given the demands of ‘No Child Left
arts educators. Attending the 2006 Legislative
Behind.’
by Rachael Kvapil
Forum, held on December 6 in the FAA Bear
Gallery, were Senators Gary Wilken and
states that the arts are part of the core and
summer
Gene Therriault and Representatives David
will be tested in the future, the current focus
visitors to the Interior express
Guttenburg, John Coghill, Jr., Scott Kawasaki
is on reading, writing, and math with science
great surprise at the number
(elect) with legislative aides Derek Miller (for
next. We need to find bigger blocks of time to
of galleries, performances,
Representative Mike Kelly), Dorothy Shockley
include the arts,” said Barb.
and artists in Alaska. Fairbanks
(for Senator Al Kookesh), and Joe Michel (for
Arts Association staff and
Senator Ralph Seekins). FAA Executive Director
legislature to continue its support of the 1% for
volunteers enjoy educating
June Rogers facilitated the forum.
Art Program, which requires public facilities to
people about our thriving
set aside 1% of its budget for art for the newly
community
supports
the Alaska State Council on the Arts, updated
built structure.
all genres of visual, literary,
the Interior Delegation about the activities of
and performing arts. FAA
this statewide agency including the celebration
FAA assembled an information package for
knows that the more people
of its 40th Anniversary in 2007. She asked the
each member of the Interior Delegation. The
understand art, the more likely
Interior Delegation to support the funding
package included brochures, pamphlets, and
they are to support it as either
requests submitted by ASCA to the governor,
program information about FAA, ASCA, and
a patron or a participant.
FAA’s 2006 Legislative Forum: Enhancing the Arts Community with the Exchange of Ideas
Every
that
Peggy Ferguson, council member for
“Though ‘No Child Left Behind’
Finally,
Barb
encouraged
the
In addition to the exchange of ideas,
which included a National Endowment for
Interior arts organizations. Legislators say the
the
the Arts grant match and additional funds
reference material is useful when discussing
year arts organizations put a
to hire a full-time Arts Education position.
arts-related issues with their colleagues.
lot of energy into educating
After acknowledging the efforts of the entire
visitors and residents alike.
delegation on behalf of arts organization,
the support they receive from their Interior
With so many arts-related
Peggy also recognized Senator Gary Wilken
Delegation. “The Legislative Forum is a great
opportunities,
as the 2006 Governor’s Arts Advocacy Award
opportunity to familiarize yourself with your
continuous communication to
recipient.
team,” says Fairbanks Concert Association
keep abreast of the activities
in any given arts organization.
complimented
The payoff, however, is that
accomplishing so much despite limited
adds, “It is a great opportunity to learn first
artists and arts organization
budgets. “We know that for every dollar given
hand about the people representing you and
know how to help each other
we get so much more back,” said Senator
your organization in Juneau.”
while working towards the
Wilken, a statement echoed many times
growth of our established arts
though the hour and a half session.
culture in Alaska.
Throughout
This
it
show
takes
of
Members of the Interior Delegation
The
Delegation
every
when
was also urged
Association
to support an
Fairbanks
Arts
holds its Legislative Forum.
increase
An event affiliated with FAA’s
arts education.
Community Arts Committee,
Fairbanks North
the Legislative Forum brings
Star
members
School
from
the
arts
organizations
Interior
support becomes important December
arts
in
Borough District
community together with the
Art
current Interior Delegation for
Barb
an open discussion about arts-
expressed
related issues. Participation
a
in the forum is open to FAA
maintaining arts
Specialist Short difficulty
Fairbanks Arts Association • January 2007
for
Arts organizations are proud of
Executive Director Jason Hodges.
FAA Board President Corlis Taylor
Application for Exhibit Space ART EXPO 2006 Saturday, March 17 & Sunday, March 18 Pioneer Park-Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts
ArtEXPO is an art showcase. In addition to displaying work, artists are asked to demonstrate the techniques used to create each unique piece and to interact with the public. This is a chance for artists to educate the public about your creative process.
Name:
It is the policy of ArtEXPO that all work must be represented by the artist.
Business Name: Address: City: Phone:
State:
Zip:
E-mail:
Fax:
Number of Spaces ($100 for a 9’x 8’ space) Will you need an electrical outlet? Yes (Extension cords not provided.)
Number of 6’ tables No
.
Applications are now being accepted for ArtEXPO 2007. Early application (with a $25 discount) deadline is January 15, 2007.
Please let us know if you have special needs, every effort will be made to accommodate requests.
Description of Product Line: (First time participants in Art Expo please send a photo or sample of your work)
Important ArtEXPO Dates:
You will be billed $100 for each table at time of acceptance. Submit application to: Fairbanks Arts Association PO Box 72786 • Fairbanks, AK 99707 Exhibit space is limited. Assignments will be made in order of the date received. Fairbanks Arts Association reserves the right to accept only those exhibits reflect the character of the show.
A $25 application fee will be added to all applications received after January 15, 2007.
Workshops Friday, March 16, 9am-5pm
Set-up Friday, March 16, 1-5pm Saturday, March 17, 8-11am ArtEXPO Saturday, March 17, 11am-5pm Sunday, March 18, 11pm-4pm
Cost: January 2007 • Fairbanks Arts Association $100 for a single space reserve prior
The mission of North Pole Charitable Youth, Inc. is to inspire youth to
F.A.A. Affiliate Spotlight: North Pole Charitable Youth, Inc.
dream and create their dreams using
technology new to Alaska. While following that dream, students will learn how to set goals, schedules, and plan to succeed.
We use a
series of classes, each one building on the skills learned in several unrelated disciplines, to accomplish the ultimate goal of creating new entrepreneurial
opportunities
others and make stories that can become a
and economic diversity in Alaska.
television series a movie or game. Here the
Classes include but are not limited
students learn how to work within a set time
NPCYI is planning to start classes in
to 2D and 3D computer animation,
frame and budget.
animatronics and hologram technology in
videoagraphy, sound and video editing, sound and video effects.
time working on their projects.
the near future.
Classes are held at 1949
Youth and adults repeatedly asked Mr. Sevy if
Gilliam Way, Room 401. For more information
he could teach them 3D-computer animation,
visit www.npcyi.org or call 455-5585 to leave
We use 3D computer animation
he conducted a survey at local high schools and
message.
to teach students how to create
determined that there was sufficient interest
constructive and productive projects
to put a class together. NPCYI was created in
*(Render: This is the term for where the computer
while letting their creative ideas
April 2001. The first class of 4 students began
calculates the art work and lighting for each frame
flow.
We channel the ideas into
in 2002-2003 school year with donated space
of animation. It then creates photos then puts
short movies that become a demo
and a limit of 2 hours per week from the North
these in sequence to make a movie file.) Students
reel for the students. These 5-minute
Pole Youth Academy. In the 2003-2004 school
must render their projects for viewing timing and
animations include all the different
year North Pole High School donated the use
appearance of the animations. There are 30 frames
aspects of animation, which include
of eight computers and 4 hours per week for
for each second or 1,800 frame for each minute
modeling (sculpting and art), motion
an after school class. February of 2005 NPCYI
of animation. When students first start each
(drama), audio (music and effects),
decided to branch out on its own with its own
animation it is just a few hundred frames and each
lighting (drama and photography),
facility thus opening classes up to the entire
frame renders in seconds. As the student progresses
textures (art and painting), and
interior Alaska area.
and their skills increases the complexity of the
storyboarding (creative writing and story telling).
animation increase significantly. Each frame then We are currently raising $60,000 for a render*
can take minutes hours, and some frames may take
farm and new computers for the 3D animation
days to render out a single frame.
Students then work in-group projects
class. This will free students computers from
where they learn to cooperate with
render duties and let the students spend class
Fairbanks Arts Association • January 2007
To Our Wonderful Volunteers! Thank you
Portfolio Review
Gallery Docents Cheryl Joens Edie Barbour Lee Harris Kathy Dubs Laura Christos Frances Schulz Mary Lou Jorrison Helga Wagenleiter Debbie Bayer Penny Wakefield Heika Vig
Postcard Mailing
Monroe Catholic School students: Jocelyn Ribar Eilish Saunders Emilia Monroe Breanna Anderson Barbara Santora
First Friday Crew Vi Robinson Ivan Kvapil Cheryl Joens
School Performance Ushers
Lisa Freer Nancy Knox Laura Christos LeAnn Hood Marta Hood Graham Hood Betty Robinson Mary Keelean Shana Eager Parents of Dance Theatre Fairbanks
Portfolio Review Annie Duffy
Craig Buchanan Nancy Hausle-Johnson Herb Melchior Deborah Porter Connie Fischer Ken Whitten Tom Nixon Mary Ver Hoef
Time Out at Noon Karl Monetti
Fairbanks Arts Association Fairbanks Arts Association was established in 1966 to promote and support the arts in the Fairbanks area. The Association is funded by private, corporate, and foundation memberships and donations, City of Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With assistance from professional staff and charitable volunteers, the Association provides services in five areas: Visual, Literary, Performing, Community Arts and Arts Education. The Association also helps raise funds for other arts groups, provides technical assistance and support for arts programming, encourages and advises individual artists beginning organizations and sponsors workshops and educational meetings. Board of Directors
Corlis Taylor, President Marcella Hill, Vice President Leafy McBride, Secretary Myrna Colp, Treasurer Members: Bob Dempsey Jerrie Graham Joan Stack Shane Hurd Lorraine Peterson
December School Performance-Babes in Toyland
Staff June Rogers, Executive Director Sherry Faught, Office Manager/Bookkeeper Rachael Kvapil, Program Director Gabriel Lopez-Shaw, Tech Assistant Igor Pasternak, Gallery Assistant
January 2007 • Fairbanks Arts Association
January Gallery Exhibit: Art for Alaskans
The Alaska State Council on the Arts in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts Selections from 30 years of the Alaska Contemporary Art Bank Sponsored by the NEA American Masterpieces Initiative Editor’s Note: The following is a statement written from Alaska State Council on the Arts Executive Director Charlotte Fox, written for the Art for Alaskans catalog. This exhibit, 30 years of the Alaska Contemporary Art Banks, is part of an initiative launched this year by the National Endowment for the Arts, entitled “American Masterpieces.” Every state chose a project they thought represented qualities inherent in American Masterpieces, representing the best of the state’s cultural and artistic legacy. For this inaugural year, in honor of our 40th anniversary, we chose to highlight our own Contemporary Art Bank. The Alaska Contemporary Art Bank is an Alaska State Council on the Arts program that supports Alaska’s artists through the purchase of their work. For years, the Art Bank has lived up to its mission of making valuable art accessible to the general public by placing high quality works of original art by living Alaska artists on view in public spaces other than museums. The Alaska State Council on the Arts wants to thank the participating museums, galleries and culture centers for hosting this traveling exhibit. The Council would also like to recognize the curatorial sensibilities of the exhibit curator Asia Freeman, Homer, and the exhibit coordinator Sandy Gillespie, Fairbanks.
Images Below-L to R: Sara Tabbert; The Watchful Word 20.25 x 32.5; James Schoppert, A Smooth Round Stone 48 x 47.75; Kes
Woodward, Birch Portrait 25 x 21; James Barker, Ella Tulik Holding Up Drying Fish,18.25” x 14.24”; Other Fairbanks works include Kathleen Carlo, Untitled, 20 x 10 x 10; Sandy Gillespie, Transience 63 x 76)
Fairbanks Arts Association • January 2007
& Brenda Jones “Gwich’ in Faces”
Brenda Jones has always made art part of her life. Growing up in the panhandle of Florida, she was always involved in projects and
considered art an essential part of her well-being. She has an undergraduate and a master’s degree in math and in her 50s began formal art training with her first painting class. For Brenda math and art are different ways of framing the universe, both focusing on essential elements of the human condition.
During an extended stay in Hawaii, Brenda became fascinated with different cultures and the conflicts generated by heritage, ethnicity
and identity and the demands of mainstream modern life. She not only learned about the different ethnic groups living in this island microcosm but also learned about herself through the eyes of others. These experiences, more than any others, dovetailed into the experiences that she has had living in rural Alaska. She regrets that she didn’t pursue portrait painting during this period of her life.
At 50 Brenda became certified to teach high school and took a job in Fort Yukon with an ambition of painting portraits of her new
charges. It was here that she picked up the dropped thread of discovering herself through the eyes of others, in addition to studying the effects of the collision of culture and the demands of living in the modern American 21st century. Her show “Gwich’in Faces” is very personal for Brenda, “When I first arrived in Fort Yukon, I had two brothers in my class, Thomas and Everette Horace. They had just moved into Fort Yukon from Venetie to go to school, and hopefully play basketball with the Eagles. Thomas and Everette were good students but amazing on the basketball court. “After I returned to Fairbanks, Everette moved into town as well and attended Howard Luke Academy during the time that I was the math teacher there. In short, we span a seven-year history together and I have been blessed with having them in my life. We all lost Thomas last February and are still trying to come to terms with this loss. Dedicating this show to Thomas’ memory is my way of communicating to his family how profoundly sorry I am for their loss and a way to help me process this event.”
Images: right, John Fredson 2’ x 2’ ; below, Esaias and Martha
James, Arctic Village, 2’ x 3’ ; and left bottom corner, self image)
January Gallery Exhibit Exhibit Dates: January 5-January 27 Opening Reception: Friday, January 5, 5-8 p.m.
January 2007 • Fairbanks Arts Association
Reading Series: Joseph Enzweiler f a i r b a n k s
a r t s
a s s o c i a t i o n
.:: Reading Series ‘07
Joseph Enzweiler
Joseph Enzweiler was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1950. He received a degree in Physics from Xavier University, and moved to Fairbanks in 1975. He received a MS in Physics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and in 1981 built a log house in Goldstream Valley north of town where he has lived ever since. He works as a carpenter, stone mason and photographer during the summer and fall months, and spends his winters writing. Every few years he returns to rural northern Kentucky for several months where he lives with his brother and his family, and is building a rock fence around his brother’s 3 acres of land. Enzweiler has published 3 previous books of poetry: Home Country (Fireweed Press, 1986), Stonework of the Sky (Graywolf Press, 1995) and A Curb in Eden, first version (Salmon Publishing, Ltd, 1999). A Curb in Eden, new version was published by Iris Press in 2003. Recently he released his latest collection A Winter on Earth. The Monthly Literary Reading is on Saturday, January 6 at 7pm in the FAA Bear
Gallery. Please note that our Literary Reading Series is now on the first Saturday of each month.
Dan was born and raised in Rockford Illinois, located 90 miles west of Chicago. When he was in the sixth grade, his parents bought him a subscription to “Outdoor” magazine, as a Christmas gift. Little did they know that it would change his life forever. In one of the issues was an article on Fred Bear bow hunting for Grizzly Bear in Alaska. It had artist’s renditions of the hunt and soon, Dan would dream of living in Alaska and bow hunting for Grizzly Bear. It took 37 years before Dan realized his dream of coming to Alaska. After high school, he went to work for a factory, got married and had a family and thought his dream would never come true. In 1997, Dan came to Alaska for the first time, camping for two weeks and traveling throughout the road system of Alaska. In 1998, he brought his wife and daughter back for two more weeks of camping, when he returned to Illinois, the factory he worked for had filed for bankruptcy and he was without a job. He applied only for jobs in Alaska, and after almost 9 months of applying for jobs via telephone and Internet (and one more visit here looking for work) he finally was hired by a local air carrier. He came up in March of 1999, and his family followed in June of 1999. As Dan became older, his passion for hunting with bow and arrow left and he began hunting with a camera instead. He has a passion for photographing both wildlife and scenic areas of Alaska and travels often in his spare time (never is he without his trusty Canon!). He has traveled all over the state pursuing photo opportunities and spends countless hours in the wilderness of Denali National Park and in the woods around Fairbanks. He truly is home in nature and has a concern for the vanishing wilderness and wildlife not only in Alaska but all over the world. His photographs are an attempt to bring wilderness and wildlife to those who are not fortunate enough to experience it for themselves. Dan will donate a portion of all profits from his photos to wilderness conservation.
Fairbanks Arts Association • January 2007
Calendar of Events Dance Theatre Fairbanks Arts Association Contact: 452-1113 info@dancetheatrefairbanks.com www.dancetheatrefairbanks.com Get Your Gruv On: Workshops with Jeremy Knutsen January 8-13 Hip Hop, Theatre Dance, and Movement classes for ages 5-Adult All dance levels welcome $12/class for ages 5-7 $20/class for 8-Adult Please call DTF for detail schedule Dance Theatre Fairbanks Arts Association Contact: 452-1113 info@dancetheatrefairbanks.com www.dancetheatrefairbanks.com The Show In A Day: “The Colors Of Me” Sunday, Jan. 17th at Pioneer Park Arrival time for participating students: TBA Showtime @ 4PM Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre Contact: 457-POET info@fstalaska.org
www.fairbanks-shakespeare.org 8th Annual Bard-a-thon January 20-28, 24 Hours a Day Kick off Celebration January 20th @ 8PM Empress Theatre Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Contact 474-8869 festival@alaska.net www.fsaf.org FSAF Winter Edition: Cabaret Classes Guest Artist Jaunelle Celaire January 21-26 Class #1: 5:30 -7:30PM Class #2: 8-10PM Class Performance Friday, January 26 Fairbanks Symphony Association’ Contact: 474-5733 or 474-5852 www.fairbankssymphony.org Piano Recital: Peter Longworth, piano Thursday, January 25 @ 8PM Charles Davis Concert Hall FORD MADE IN AMERICA (Local Premiere of Joan Tower’s new work)
Arctic Chamber Orchestra Eduard Zilberkant, conductor Peter Longworth, piano Saturday, January 27 @ 8PM Charles Davis Concert Hall Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre Contact: 456-FLOT lmcphee@gci.net www.flot.org Man of La Mancha January 19-28 Fridays @ 8PM Saturdays @ 8PM Sundays @ 4PM Pioneer Park Theatre Theatre UAF Spring Auditions for “Picnic” and SDA’s Winter Shorts The script as well as the audition packet are on reserve at the Rasmuson Library as well as on E-Reserve at: http://eres.uaf.edu/courseindex.asp (Password is “theatre”) Saturday, January 27 @ 10AM Fairbanks Concert Association Contact: 474-8081 info@fairbanksconcert.org Imago Theatre’s FROGZ Sunday, January 28 @ 5PM Hering Auditorium
Timeout @ NOON
sponsored by Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation
Bring lunch Enjoy a FREE performance Meet local talent in the Exhibit Hall Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts
Tuesday & Thursday For more information: 456-6485 ext. 227 or go to www.fairbanksarts.org
Noon to 1 pm
January 2007 • Fairbanks Arts Association
MAINSTAGE performances take place in the Alaska Centennial Center for Arts theatre at 7 pm
Tickets available at the door for $5 For more information please call 456-6485 ext 227 or go to www.fairbanksarts.org
Fairbanks Arts Association is funded by Private, Corporate and Foundation memberships and donations, City of Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 10
Fairbanks Arts Association • January 2007
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Last SProgram top: Announcements 2007 Artist T Inhe Residence
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior
Selections will be made without regard to race, religion, sex, marital status, or age; however, applicants must possess the ability, skills and experience to fully participate in the Park’s backcountry patrols.
A jury comprised of the Gates of the Arctic NP&P Chief of Operations and AIR Program Coordinator, and a panel of three local Alaskan artists makes the selection. Selections are based on the demonstrated artistic merits of the applicant(s), on how the proposed art work will represent Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, its wilderness values and on how it will advance the preservation mission of the National Park Service and Gates of the Arctic NP&P.
For the duration of their trip, resident artists are classified as National Park Service Volunteers In Parks.
Contributed works become park property and are placed on public display or performed within the community. Collaborative projects are considered and programs that coordinate with local schools and organizations are encouraged.
Selections will beagrees made without regard toone race,piece religion, sex, marital status, age;residency to the park The artist to contribute of work inspired byortheir however, applicants must possess the ability, skills and experience to fully participate to make at least one public presentation about their experience within one year. in theand Park’s backcountry patrols.
The selected artist accompanies a Park Ranger on a backcountry patrol. Patrols may accommodate the artist to a certain extent, but artists must be both physically fit enough
A jury of theaGates of theand Arctic NP&Pthe Chief of Operations and AIRfor extended, rigorous tocomprised attempt such journey possess skills and experience Program Coordinator, and aThe panel of three local Alaskan artistsfood, makes selection.camping and wilderness travel. artists provide their own artthesupplies, Selections are based on the demonstrated artistic merits of the applicant(s), on how the backpacking gear, and transportation to and fromPark Coldfoot, Alaska. proposed art work will represent Gates of the Arctic National and Preserve, its The Park supplies transportation ending Coldfoot,mission watercraft associated equipment wilderness values and originating on how it willand advance the in preservation of the and National Park for Service Gatesand of the Arctic NP&P.food containers for all trips. Pets are not allowed. floatand trips, bear resistant
the opportunity to pursue their art in a premier wilderness setting; Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
The Artist in Residence program offers professional writers, composers, musicians, two
For the duration of their trip, resident are classified as National Park Service and three-dimensional visualartists artists, photographers, filmmakers, and artisans of all types Volunteers In Parks.
Contributed works become park property and are placed on public display or performed within the community. Collaborative projects are considered and programs that coordinate with local schools and organizations are encouraged.
The Residence artist agrees to contribute one piece of work inspired by their residency to the park 2007 Artist In Program and to make at least one public presentation about their experience within one year.
The Selection Process
For More Information
The Selection Process
About The Program
A jury comprised of the Gates of the Arctic NP&P Chief of Operations and AIR Program Coordinator, and a panel of three local Alaskan artists makes the selection. Selections are based on the demonstrated artistic merits of the applicant(s), on how the proposed art work will represent Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, its wilderness values and on how it will advance the preservation mission of the National Park Service and Gates of the Arctic NP&P.
Tracie Pendergrast, AIR Coordinator 4175 Geist Rd, Fairbanks, AK 99709-3420 907-455-0641 tracie_pendergrast@nps.gov
For the duration of their trip, resident artists are classified as National Park Service Volunteers In Parks.
For More Information
Tracie Pendergrast, AIR Coordinator 4175 Geist Rd, Fairbanks, AK 99709-3420 907-455-0641 tracie_pendergrast@nps.gov
The artist agrees to contribute one piece of work inspired by their residency to the park and to make at least one public presentation about their experience within one year. Contributed works become park property and are placed on public display or performed within the community. Collaborative projects are considered and programs that coordinate with local schools and organizations are encouraged.
Juried Artstatus, Show Selections will be made without regard to race, religion, sex, marital or age; however, applicants must possess the ability, skills and experience to fully participate in the Park’s backcountry patrols. Entry Deadline: Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 at 5 pm. All pieces must be at the Ketchikan Visitor’s
Call for Artists
Li St
Varied Thrush American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend’s Warbler MacGillivary’s Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson’s Warbler Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur
Bird
Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Peewee Alder Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow N. Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Ruby-crowned Kinglet Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin
Bureau, at 131 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901. If mailing pieces, send them to ATTN: Alaska Hummingbird Festival Juried Art Show using the above address. Entries submitted by mail must include payment for return postage: using a United States postal money order payable to Postmaster Ketchikan, Alaska 99901. Include return address on sender side of money order. Reception: The Ketchikan Visitor’s Bureau will host an opening reception on Friday, April 13th, from 5-7pm. Artists are encouraged to attend. Free and open to the public. Artists should follow these criteria: • Artworks must be inspired by the enclosed Spring Migratory Bird list.
Juried Art Show
Call for Artists
• Recent, original artwork must not have been previously exhibited in Ketchikan.
encouraged to Visitor’s attend. Free open to thearepublic. Bureau or and the City of Ketchikan not responsible for loss or damage of submitted artwork. Questions: Please contact leslie SwadaArtists at 907-228-6247 lswada@fs.fed.us should or follow these criteria: Cash Prizes: Adult (18 & up) Best of Show: $500/ Juvenile (17 & under) Best of Show: $100 • Artworks mustAdult be1stinspired by the enclosed Spring Migratory Bird list. Prize: $300 / Juvenile 1st Prize: $75
Pectoral Sandpiper Rock Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte’s Gull Mew Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer’s Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Band-tailed Pigeon Vaux’s Swift Rufous Hummingbird Red-breasted Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker
• Recent, original artworkMention: must$200 not/ Juvenile haveHonorable been previously Adult Honorable Mention: $50 exhibited in Ketchikan. This artists juried artworking show is sponsored by the Tongass National the Alaskaper Natural History Association and the Ketchikan • Open to Alaskan in all media, maximum ofForest, two entries artist. Visitor’s Bureau. • Artwork must be labeled with artist’s name, medium, description and price. (see entry form) *Artworktowillhang be available for pickhardware, up April 29th & 30th hooks etc. All three dimensional • All two-dimensional entries must be framed, ready including wires, Please print clearly as this information will be used for exhibit labels. entries must be ready for display. Information: AdultApril 13th-28th Juvenile Juvenile artist, ______________ Sales: The showArtist will be displayed from and artists If may present theirage artwork for sale during the exhibit. Proceeds of theName: sale benefit the artist (75%) and the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center’s educational and interpretive Address: programs (25%).Home/Work Phone: Miscellaneous: We reserve the right to exclude work that is inappropriate for this exhibit or is not properly prepared for Email: display. Your work will be treated with care. The Forest Service, the Alaska Natural History Association, the Ketchikan Artwork: Item Title: Visitor’s Bureau or the1:City of Ketchikan are not responsible for loss or damage of submitted artwork. Medium: Questions: Please contact leslie Swada at 907-228-6247 or lswada@fs.fed.us Description/Species: Cash Prizes: Adult (18 & up) Best of Show: $500/ Juvenile (17 & under) Best of Show: $100 Price: $ Adult 1st Prize: $300 / Juvenile 1st Prize: $75 Item 2: Title/Species: Adult Honorable Mention: $200 / Juvenile Honorable Mention: $50 Medium: This juried art show is sponsored by the Tongass National Forest, the Alaska Natural History Association and the Ketchikan Description: Visitor’s Bureau. Price: $
Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Bufflehead Barrow’s Goldeneye Hooded merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Northern Goshawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon
Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Pacific Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Wandering Tattler Spotted Sandpiper Marbled Godwit Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone Surfbird Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper
Entry Form
I would like to volunteer for this event.
Entry Form Spring
Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon
Shipping fee included (for out of town artists): $
*Artwork will be available for pick up April 29th & 30th M Please igr aclearly t oasr B i rwilldbe used L i for Sexhibit t labels. print thisyinformation
Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck
Sandhill Crane Pectoral Sandpiper Black-bellied Plover Rock Sandpiper American Golden-Plover Dunlin
Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Wood-
Varied Thrush American Pipit Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Surf Scoter Pacific Golden-Plover Horned Grebe Short-billed Dowitcher pecker Artist Information: Adult Juvenile If Juvenile artist, ageWarbler ______________ Yellow Warbler White-winged Scoter Semipalmated Plover Red-necked Grebe Long-billed Dowitcher Northern Flicker Yellow-rumped Warbler Black Scoter Killdeer Great Blue Heron Wilson’s Snipe Olive-sided Flycatcher Name: Townsend’s Warbler Greater Yellowlegs Great White-fronted Goose Bufflehead Red-necked Phalarope Western Wood-Peewee MacGillivary’s Warbler Barrow’s Goldeneye Wandering Tattler Snow Goose Bonaparte’s Gull Alder Flycatcher Address: Canada Goose Hooded merganser Spotted Sandpiper Mew Gull Pacific-slope Flycatcher Common Yellowthroat Wilson’s Warbler Common Merganser Marbled Godwit Brant California Gull Warbling Vireo Savannah Sparrow Red-breasted Merganser Whimbrel Swan Herring Gull Tree Swallow Home/Work Trumpeter Phone: Fox Sparrow Osprey Ruddy Turnstone Tundra Swan Thayer’s Gull Violet-green Swallow Song Sparrow Bald Eagle Black Turnstone Gadwall Glaucous-winged Gull N. Rough-winged Email: Lincoln’s Sparrow Northern Harrier Surfbird American Wigeon Black-legged Kittiwake Swallow White-crowned Sparrow Sharp-shinned Hawk Red Knot Mallard Band-tailed Pigeon Barn Swallow Golden-crowned Sparrow Artwork: Blue-winged Teal Northern Goshawk Sanderling Vaux’s Swift Ruby-crowned Kinglet Dark-eyed Junco American Kestrel Semipalmated Sandpiper Rufous Hummingbird Northern Pintail Swainson’s Thrush Lapland Longspur Merlin Western Sandpiper Green-winged Teal Red-breasted Sapsucker Hermit Thrush Item 1: Title: Peregrine Falcon Least Sandpiper Ring-necked Duck Downy Woodpecker American Robin Medium: Description/Species: Price:January $ 2007 • Fairbanks Arts Association 11 Item 2: Title/Species:
Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Great White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Canada Goose Brant Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck
Artist Information: Adult Name: Address: Home/Work Phone: Email: Artwork: Item 1: Title: Medium: Description/Species: Price: $ Item 2: Title/Species: Medium: Description: Price: $
M i g r at o r y
•Entry Open to Alaskan artists working in all media, of two entries artist. Deadline: Wednesday, Aprilmaximum 4th, 2007 at 5 per pm. All pieces must be at the Ketchikan Visitor’s Tracie Pendergrast, AIR Coordinator • Artwork must be labeled with artist’s name, medium, description and price. (see entry form) at 131 entries Frontmust Street, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901. If mailing pieces, senddimensional them to ATTN: Alaska •Bureau, All two-dimensional be framed, ready to hang including hardware, wires, hooks etc. All three 4175 Geist Rd, entries must be ready for Show display. using the above address. Entries submitted by mail must include payment for Hummingbird Festival Juried Art Fairbanks, AK 99709-3420 Sales: The show will be displayed from April 13th-28th and artists may present their artwork for sale during the exhibit. return postage:Proceeds using of a the United States postal money order payable to Postmaster Ketchikan, Alaska 99901. Include sale benefit the artist (75%) and the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center’s educational and interpretive 907-455-0641 return address programs on sender side of money order. (25%). Miscellaneous: We reserveBureau the right towill exclude is inappropriate for this or is April not properly for Reception: The Ketchikan Visitor’s hostwork an that opening reception onexhibit Friday, 13th,prepared from 5-7pm. Artists are tracie_pendergrast@nps.gov display. Your work will be treated with care. The Forest Service, the Alaska Natural History Association, the Ketchikan
Spring
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
The Artist in Residence program offers professional writers, composers, musicians, two and three-dimensional visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, and artisans of all types the opportunity to pursue their art in a premier wilderness setting; Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
2007 Artist In Residence Program
About The Program
For More Information
The selected artist accompanies a Park Ranger on a backcountry patrol. Patrols may accommodate the artist to a certain extent, but artists must be both physically fit enough to attempt such a journey and possess the skills and experience for extended, rigorous wilderness travel. The artists provide their own food, art supplies, camping and backpacking gear, and transportation to and from Coldfoot, Alaska. The Park supplies transportation originating and ending in Coldfoot, watercraft and associated equipment for float trips, and bear resistant food containers for all trips. Pets are not allowed.
Shipping fee included (for out of town artists): $
If Juvenile artist, age ______________
The Selection Process
The Artist in Residence program offers professional writers, composers, musicians, two and three-dimensional visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, and artisans of all types the opportunity to pursue their art in a premier wilderness setting; Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
Juvenile
*Artwork will be available for pick up April 29th & 30th Please print clearly as this information will be used for exhibit labels.
Entry Form
Cash Prizes: Adult (18 & up) Best of Show: $500/ Juvenile (17 & under) Best of Show: $100 Adult 1st Prize: $300 / Juvenile 1st Prize: $75 Adult Honorable Mention: $200 / Juvenile Honorable Mention: $50 This juried art show is sponsored by the Tongass National Forest, the Alaska Natural History Association and the Ketchikan Visitor’s Bureau.
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
Gates of the Arctic NP&P 201 First Ave Fairbanks, AK 99701
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior
About The Program
I would like to volunteer for this event.
The selected artist accompanies a Park Ranger on a backcountry patrol. Patrols may National Park Service accommodate the artist to a certain extent, but artists must be both physically fit enough U.S. Department of the Interior to attempt such a journey and possess the skills and experience for extended, rigorous wilderness travel. The artists provide their own food, art supplies, camping and Gates of the Arctic NP&P backpacking gear, and transportation to and from Coldfoot, Alaska. The ParkAve supplies 201 First transportation originating and ending in Coldfoot, watercraft and associated equipment Fairbanks, AK 99701 for float trips, and bear resistant food containers for all trips. Pets are not allowed.
Gates of the Arctic NP&P 201 First Ave Fairbanks, AK 99701
monthly newsletter of Fairbanks Arts Association
December 2006
State of the Arts The
Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage Paid Fairbanks, Alaska Permit No. 17
P.O. Box 72786 Fairbanks, Alaska 99707
Volunteer of the Month:
Vi Robinson
I came to the Fairbanks Arts Association in the late eighties for job training. I learned may skills like bulk mailing and early lessons on the computer. My greatest enlightenment was about the many, many forms of art. I am a lifelong Alaskan, born and raised in Chistochina through my teens. Unfortunately in my era there was no school and so my foster mother read to us during the long winter evenings. She read many classics like Lewis Caroll’s Alice in
Wonderland, which gave me great appreciation for literature into my adult years. I really enjoy FAA’s Monthly Literary Readings in the Bear Gallery and Gazebo Nights in summer months. Lately I have been involved with the Dinners in the Home Program as a driver. I enjoy meeting all the visitors and showing them the Fairbanks I have come to know over forty years. I am so glad to have had the opportunity to be involved with FAA. It has really enriched my life! I am glad to have met so many creative and friendly people. I am thankful for my time there.
12
Fairbanks Arts Association • January 2007